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Blind impressions : methods and mythologies in book history / / Joseph A. Dane



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Autore: Dane Joseph A Visualizza persona
Titolo: Blind impressions : methods and mythologies in book history / / Joseph A. Dane Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
Disciplina: 010/.44
Soggetto topico: Bibliography - Methodology
Bibliography - Methodology - History
Printing - History
Printing - Historiography
Type and type-founding - History
Type and type-founding - Historiography
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. What Is Print? -- Chapter 1. Paleography Versus Typography -- Chapter 2. "Ca. 1800": What's in a Date? -- Chapter 3. Bibliographers of the Mind -- PART II. On the Making of Lists -- Chapter 4. Herman R. Mead's Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the Notion of "Typographical Value" -- Chapter 5. Catchtitles in English Books to 1550 -- Chapter 6. An Editorial Propaedeutic -- PART III. Ironies of History and Representation: Theme and Variation -- Playing Bibliography -- III.1. Book History and Book Histories: On the Making of Lists -- III.2. Meditation on the Composing Stick -- III.3. The Red and the Black -- III.4. Fragments -- III.5. The Nature and Function of Scholarly Illustration in a Digital World -- III.6. Art of the Mind -- Notes -- Principal Sources -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: "As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation."-From the Introduction What is a book in the study of print culture? For the scholar of material texts, it is not only a singular copy carrying the unique traces of printing and preservation efforts, or an edition, repeated and repeatable, or a vehicle for ideas to be abstracted from the physical copy. But when the bibliographer situates a book copy within the methods of book history, Joseph A. Dane contends, it is the known set of assumptions which govern the discipline that bibliographic arguments privilege, repeat, or challenge. "Book history," he writes, "is us. "In Blind Impressions, Dane reexamines the field of material book history by questioning its most basic assumptions and definitions. How is print defined? What are the limits of printing history? What constitutes evidence? His concluding section takes form as a series of short studies in theme and variation, considering such matters as two-color printing, the composing stick used by hand-press printers, the bibliographical status of book fragments, and the function of scholarly illustration in the Digital Age. Meticulously detailed, deeply learned, and often contrarian, Blind Impressions is a bracing critique of the way scholars define and solve problems.
Titolo autorizzato: Blind impressions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8122-0869-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826697603321
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Serie: Material texts.